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The Latest: Supreme Court will allow Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce to go ahead

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The Supreme Court cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to cut down on the size of the federal workforce, despite warnings from experts that vital government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of their jobs.

There have been no official numbers for the job cuts, which have been led by the Department of Government Efficiency, but tens of thousands of federal workers have been fired, have left their jobs via deferred resignation programs or have been placed on leave.

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